Peterw42

I think its foolish to celebrate the appeal process

The owner can do whatever he likes, staying short term in a condo is illegal so you dont have a leg to stand on. Stay in a legal lisensed hotel and you will have all the protection of the law, or actually sign a lease on a property and you will have the protection of the law. Otherwise, you dont have a reservation and you would not be checking in as its not a hotel, it sounds like illegal short term rental..

Wife made us have a look yesterday, thinking there would be some great opening specials, there wasn't, lol. Identical to macro, including the same prices, identical to the baht, so much for giving macro some competition and maybe lowering prices..

I was using an agent because I didnt have the 800k ,It was all done at my local office using my actual address. And, as I said, later I changed back to doing it myself with no problems.

Usually people use an agent , and as the OP states, because they dont have the 800k in the bank.

That's not true. I used an agent for a couple of years then switched back to doing it myself.

OP, (as soi3eddie says above) developers can generate an FET from their account. Its very common, people send all the money to the developer, they dont even have their own account and the FET get generated. The official blurb from the land office is "an FET showing the foriegner as either the receiver of foreign funds into their account, or showing the foreigner as the sender of foreign funds into any account'.

So the husband can be a shareholder and an employee ? Just not the wife.

What rubbish, you cant go from arrivals to departures in any airport without going through immigration, and that includes a transit lounge. How are people checking in for their return flight ? Your travel history did not check out, by your own admission you have spent several months in Thailand this year, and reached your limit for land border crossings. Not sure how that makes the immigration guy lose face.

I have read through this whole thread, and I cant understand the innocent victim, evil immigration narrative. The guy has been denied entry for too much time and too many entries in 2023. In his own words "several months earlier this year", not 2-3 months, not a couple of months, not a few months, "several months". And an admission of at least 2 land border crossings. I suspect there are other relevant details the OP has maybe chosen to omit. I dont get why these guys dont just admit to too many visits, not getting correct visa etc. Instead, they have to make up rubbish about being the victim, a crazed immigration officials etc. If you have a Thai family, then get a thai family visa. But I suppose that doesnt work as you cant play the victim

Of course the helpdesk isnt going to advertise that they accept bribes to produce fraudulent documents.

Thai ID has both dates doesnt it

OP, do you want the drive repaired, or do you want data recovery ? If you don't have any important data on it, then its not really worth repairing, just buy a new one. If its data recovery, and you are reasonably handy, you can try and buy an identical drive and change out parts , put the platters from the old drive into new etc. Otherwise google data recovery companies, these are companies that specialize in getting data off broken hard drives, and will most likely be in Bangkok.

You know who gets great satisfaction from the size of my penis ? "ME"

Its probably not specifically stated in the legislation either way, but I think it would come down to a local interpretation by the juristic person. The guy who hasn't paid fees could always just bring along another person to vote the proxies.

Just leave it blank, its not a mandatory field. If you re-entered in June, it would appear you have already done at least one 90 day report, did you use the same stay visa expire date, was it successful ????

The funds to buy a condo need to be sent to Thailand "as a foreign currency" and converted to baht by a Thai bank. If you have already done this, then your bank will have no problem producing a letter/FET, that the land office will accept.

What's happend to the old staples, a bumgun thread, a sinsod thread, and that old faithful "what happend to high season" ? On a serious note, I always thought it would be interesting to have a census of members, Age, what visa/extension, do you use an agent etc.

Outside of the sexpat sois, its no different to the rest of Thailand, with a bit more western infrastructure.

A lot of the condo management companies are like mafia, once they get into a building they are almost impossible to remove, they control the meetings, the proxy votes etc. renovations get done by the the management companies other companies.

The OP is highlighting a problem between a Thai national, her ID card and Australian immigration, I don't know that being married to a foreigner, or communications between husband and wife, has anything to do with it.

You present a passport to enter Australia. Why would you be presenting any other form of ID ? And, that passport would have been presented to get an Australian visa. And if the passport was not in order, she wouldn't have got a visa. Australian immigration do not ask for, or look at, Thai ID cards. I'm calling BS on this one

The new laws changes the definition of capital, savings etc. Any money in any year, in to Thailand, is taxable no matter how or when it was earned. Its the whole reason we are discussing it

OP, depending on who you are buying from, developer, agent etc, they can often provide a solution. Developers can generate the FET documents from their accounts and agents "know a guy in the bank" etc. Otherwise, your bank will probably be able to help. Also, any other money (car purchase etc) you may have bought into Thailand over time can generate an FET.

I have not been for a long time, but I recall any requirement to stay overnight etc, came from the Thai side of things, cant leave then return on the same day. That was a long time ago.